An entrepreneur, producer & curator of creative projects, Alec Hanley Bemis is best known for running the music label Brassland, which he co-founded in 2001, with members of the band The National. For that work, he has been featured in The Irish Times, The New York Times, Print Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and other important places. Pitchfork referred to it as a “venerable artpop boutique label” and on its 10th anniversary, The Guardian newspaper profiled Brassland as “the record label at the centre of New York’s other music scene,” citing it as “a focus for some of the most intriguing and creative musicians.”

Bemis has been an invited speaker/teacher at institutions such as the Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts; a panelist at music industry gatherings including SXSW (USA), by:Larm (Norway) and Haldern Pop (Germany); and a curator at the Summer Nostos Festival (Greece), the National Concert Hall (Ireland) and Adelaide Festival (Australia).